PACIFIC RIM on IMAX 3D was everything I wanted. Almost a little bit too much of what I wanted - at some points, I honestly felt like there was too much resolution, too much detail, too much going on for my eye and brain to actually take in and process. I felt the same about the end of IRON MAN 3.

Pull back the camera a little bit at times, take more in, let the viewer get some scope.

But in terms of a ROCKEM SOCKEM GIANT ROBOT movie, I have no complaints. I wasn't in it for the plot or characters, although I felt everyone held down their roles ably.

I actively avoided 3D for Pacific Rim as I knew that Del Toro has been outspoken about not wanting them to convert it. He felt that as big as the robots/ monsters are and as far away as the "camera" has to be to get the action into the frame, giving it much of a 3D effect would make it look smaller than it's meant to.

He actually changed his mind on that. He goes into some of the reasons why he allowed it in this interview, and at a post-screening Q&A at LACMA he said he wanted Pacific Rim to be a poster child for how to do a post-conversion right.

Like SPACED? Like Shaun Of The Dead? Like Hot Fuzz? Like Scott Pilgrim? Like the quiet English village SF apocalypses of John Wyndham and their influence on Quatermass and Doctor Who? If the answer to one or more of the above is yes, you'll probably like The World's End.

Also probably the only film where the end credits soundtrack is split between the Housemartins and The Sisters Of Mercy.

And I hadn't heard the term "whitey-ed" in years. Not since my own high school days.

Change of subject, as I've not seen Pacific Rim yet...Who else saw A Field In England? A true original, one of the best psychedelic films I've ever seen and the most purely English horror flick I can recall.

Saw The World's End tonight. It's not the funniest installment in the Cornetto trilogy, but for my money it's the smartest. It makes a couple of bold choices that really pay off, and managed to land one good emotional gutpunch, too. And yeah, someone chucks a whitey!

I just saw "Only God Forgives". The best description of the unrelenting dread I felt watching this film was, it was kind of like being neck deep in a meat grinder and the only way out is to keep turning the crank. It's easy to see why it's not a movie for everyone, but it is a beautifully shot nightmare and because of that, I will be buying the Blu-Ray of it.

I think tomorrow I'm going to see Pacific Rim again to cleanse my brain.

Did some soul re-filling by watching three films back to back. They happened to be Island, Gamer and Contagion. Island... wow, amazing how Bay can make films that are so full of action they end up being kind of boring. Gamer was... I don't really know. It had its moments, but so many of them were kind of bad. Brain bubblegum. What was a great surprise for me was Contagion. A rather smart, dry disaster film about a virus. I didn't catch them on any Hollywood stupid, which is kind of amazing in a thing like this. Wow!

After having watched Island and Gamer, I sort of relished the leisurely editing pace there :) And yep, the Jude Law thing... My be just my myopia of having delved a whole lot into the whole Natural News, alterna-crackpot / anti-vaxxer scene, but I found that to be a good counterweight there in the plot. You can have peoples' heads falling off and someone will be asking them not to vaccinate and to take Echinacea tincture instead. Granted, the highlighter on that was pretty heavy. But storywise, I liked that detour.